Queen’s Sudan pair & QSA Lieutenant, Lancs. Fusiliers

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2/Lt.  2/Lan: Fus:) , Queen’s South Africa, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (Lieut.  Lanc. Fus)  Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (2nd Lieut.  2nd L.F.)

T.J. Marrable

Queen’s Sudan has initials ‘F.F. Marrable’  S.A.1901 clasp a tailor’s copy

Thomas James Marrable, son Of George Marrable, Paymaster of the Queen’s Household (1891 Census), educ. Rugby and  of Onslow Square, London, was gazetted to the Lancashire Fusiliers from the 4th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment on 4 May 1898. He joined the 2nd Battalion in Egypt on 14 July of the same year and took part in the Nile Expedition and was present at the battle of Khartoum. He later served during the occupation of Crete in 1898 and in the South African War. He was promoted Captain on 15 November 1900, into the 3rd Battalion and proceeded to the West Indies. From there he was detailed for a tour at the Depot and, whilst at Bury, passed into the Staff College. He died at Territel, Switzerland, on 28 August 1913, aged 35.